When His 72-Year-Old Mother Was Assaulted by a Bleeding Stranger, He ‘Did What Had to Be Done’

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It’s a bizarre tale with a tragic ending and little explanation: A mentally unstable man began barging into strangers’ homes and, after assaulting an elderly woman, was shot and killed.

According to his family, Benjamin Beaudoin “struggled with a type of mental illness that was never positively identified but that involved severe migraines and their powerful side effects,” the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.